Henge Docks: The Inspiration Behind unDock

Henge Docks are, simply put, the most beautiful, functional, and well-designed companion to a mobile Mac. Slide the machine into your Henge Dock and everything is hooked up, ready to go. A Henge Dock gives you an iMac experience with completely hassle-free portability. Well, nearly hassle-free...

The first time we pulled a MacBook Pro out of a Henge Dock, it was in the middle of a Time Machine backup. Ouch. In that instant, the concept behind unDock was born: one keystroke to prepare your machine for the road.

When you combine a mobile Mac, a Henge Dock, and unDock, you have the power to turn your MacBook into a portable iMac. Check out Henge Docks now - you will be more than impressed.

unDock

Version 2.0

Time machine is wonderful, but it makes a mobile Mac user cry- waiting for a backup to finish or cancel before we rush to a meeting makes life difficult. unDock adds a simple but critical piece of functionality to your Mac- an "Eject All" shortcut with super powers.

Either lives unobtrusively in the menu bar or entirely in the background

No joking around here, unDock really works. The Mac App Store reviews are all the same, saying thank you to the folks at Flying Paper Software for solving one of the little pains in the #@% known to make a grown man cry.

The app has one purpose in life and it does it well. Don't let it's simplicity fool you. It is very powerful. I love that you can run scripts when disks are "unDocked". It gives you nearly endless possibilities.

- Mark Suman

I use Time Machine on an external drive at work, but I quite frequently need to unplug on a minute's notice to bring the laptop to a meeting or discussion. Before unDock, if Time Machine was doing a backup at the time, I'd either have to leave the laptop or grit my teeth and pull the cord out, causing OS X to give me sundry stern looks and disapproving lectures.
Now I just hit the shortcut, wait a few seconds, and I'm off.

- Paul Cannon

Works like a charm. Certainly one of the most useful apps I have ever bought!

- Ryan McKenna

Where can I find AppleScripts?

We're working to build a compendium of AppleScripts you'll find useful- as well as a submission system for you to share your own. Coming soon!

What kinds of drives are supported?

The removable kind- most specifically USB or Firewire. It ignores any locally mounted (SATA, for example) drives, as well as disk images, CD, and DVD drives.

Flying Paper Software

There must be a million software development shops out there working on grand dreams and schemes, offering complex and robustly engineered solutions and unparalleled power to consumers and other developers alike. We get enough of that at our day jobs. Flying Paper Software holds to two ideals:

Simplicity in design and functionality (without compromising power)

Fun in software development

We're quite serious about both- hence the name, "Flying Paper Software". A single sheet of paper can both fly (wow!) and offer countless hours of fun to the hand in which it rests. unDock represents this as well- it provides a very simple bit of functionality overlooked in the core OS. Some day, it will become redundant as this hole is patched, but today, Flying Paper Software will have a bit of fun filling in the gaps.